Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1886-12-24

Deathday

1962-04-10 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Also Known As

Manó Kertész Kaminer
Miska
Michael Courtice
Michael Kertesz
Mihaly Kertesz
Michael Kertész
Mihály Kertész
Kertész Mihály
Manó Kaminer
마이클 커티즈

Michael Curtiz

Biography

Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962), born Manó Kaminer, was a Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas. He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and '40s.

Curtiz was less successful from the late 1940s onwards, when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work, but he continued working until shortly before his death.

Known For

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The Screen Director

Mar 12, 1951

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You're the Star

Jan 1, 1953

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Today and Tomorrow

Oct 14, 1912

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Acting

2012

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self (archive footage)

1953

You're the Star as Self

1952

This Is Your Life as Self

1951

The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

1949

It's a Great Feeling as Michael Curtiz (uncredited)

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1943

Show-Business at War as Self

1913

Atlantis

1912

Today and Tomorrow as Arisztid

Costume & Make-Up

1922

Samson und Delila as Costume Design

Directing

1961		The Comancheros as Director
1961		Francis of Assisi as Director

1960		The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Director
1960		A Breath of Scandal as Director

1959		The Hangman as Director
1959		The Man in the Net as Director

1958		King Creole as Director
1958		The Proud Rebel as Director

1957

The Helen Morgan Story as Director

1956		The Best Things in Life Are Free as Director
1956		The Vagabond King as Director
1956		The Scarlet Hour as Director

1955

We're No Angels as Director

1954		White Christmas as Director
1954		The Egyptian as Director
1954		The Boy from Oklahoma as Director

1953		Trouble Along the Way as Director
1953		The Jazz Singer as Director

1952

The Story of Will Rogers as Director

1951		I'll See You in My Dreams as Director
1951		Jim Thorpe – All-American as Director
1951		Force of Arms as Director

1950		The Breaking Point as Director
1950		Bright Leaf as Director
1950		Young Man with a Horn as Director

1949		The Lady Takes a Sailor as Director
1949		Flamingo Road as Director
1949		My Dream Is Yours as Director

1948

Romance on the High Seas as Director

1947		The Unsuspected as Director
1947		Life with Father as Director

1946

Night and Day as Director

1945		Mildred Pierce as Director
1945		Roughly Speaking as Director

1944		Janie as Director
1944		Passage to Marseille as Director

1943		This Is the Army as Director
1943		Mission to Moscow as Director
1943		Casablanca as Director

1942		Yankee Doodle Dandy as Director
1942		Captains of the Clouds as Director

1941		The Sea Wolf as Director
1941		Dive Bomber as Director

1940		Santa Fe Trail as Director
1940		The Sea Hawk as Director
1940		Virginia City as Director

1939		Four Wives as Director
1939		The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex as Director
1939		Daughters Courageous as Director
1939		Sons of Liberty as Director
1939		Dodge City as Director

1938		Angels with Dirty Faces as Director
1938		Four Daughters as Director
1938		Four's a Crowd as Director
1938		The Adventures of Robin Hood as Director
1938		Gold Is Where You Find It as Director

1937		The Perfect Specimen as Director
1937		Kid Galahad as Director
1937		Mountain Justice as Director
1937		Stolen Holiday as Director
1937		Black Legion as Co-Director

1936		The Charge of the Light Brigade as Director
1936		The Walking Dead as Director

1935		Captain Blood as Director
1935		Little Big Shot as Director
1935		Front Page Woman as Director
1935		Black Fury as Director
1935		The Case of the Curious Bride as Director

1934		British Agent as Director
1934		The Key as Director
1934		Jimmy the Gent as Director
1934		Mandalay as Director

1933		Female as Director
1933		The Kennel Murder Case as Director
1933		Goodbye Again as Director
1933		Private Detective 62 as Director
1933		The Keyhole as Director
1933		Mystery of the Wax Museum as Director

1932		20,000 Years in Sing Sing as Director
1932		The Cabin in the Cotton as Director
1932		Doctor X as Director
1932		The Strange Love of Molly Louvain as Director
1932		Alias the Doctor as Director
1932		The Woman from Monte Carlo as Director

1931		The Mad Genius as Director
1931		God's Gift to Women as Director
1931		Demon of the Sea as Director

1930		River's End as Director
1930		A Soldier's Plaything as Director
1930		Bright Lights as Director
1930		The Matrimonial Bed as Director
1930		Under a Texas Moon as Director
1930		Mammy as Director

1929		Hearts in Exile as Director
1929		The Gamblers as Director
1929		Madonna of Avenue A as Director
1929		Glad Rag Doll as Director

1928		Noah's Ark as Director
1928		Tenderloin as Director

1927		Good Time Charley as Director
1927		The Desired Woman as Director
1927		A Million Bid as Director

1926		The Third Degree as Director
1926		The Golden Butterfly as Director
1926		Cab No. 13 as Director

1925

Red Heels as Director

1924		Moon of Israel as Director
1924		Harun al Raschid as Director

1923		Avalanche as Director
1923		Young Medardus as Director

1922

Sodom and Gomorrah as Director

1921		Labyrinth of Horror as Director
1921		Mrs. Dane's Confession as Director
1921		Good and Evil as Director
1921		Miss Tutti Frutti as Director

1919

My Brother Is Coming as Director

1918		A skorpió as Director
1918		Az árendás zsidó as Director
1918		Tavasz a télben as Director
1918		Alraune as Director

1917		A vörös Sámson as Director
1917		A föld embere as Director
1917		A szentjóbi erdö titka as Director
1917		The Last Dawn as Director
1917		Tatárjárás as Director
1917		A kuruzsló as Director
1917		A magyar föld ereje as Director
1917		The Wolf as Director

1916

The Coronation of King Charles IV as Director

1915		Bánk bán as Director
1915		The Undesirable as Director

1914		Golddigger as Director
1914		Rablélek as Director

1913

The Last Bohemian as Director

1912

Today and Tomorrow as Director

Production

1956

The Scarlet Hour as Producer

1949		Flamingo Road as Executive Producer
1949		My Dream Is Yours as Executive Producer

1947

The Unsuspected as Producer

1935

Bright Lights as Producer

Writing

1922

Sodom and Gomorrah as Writer

1921

Dracula's Death as Writer

1917		Tatárjárás as Screenplay
1917		A magyar föld ereje as Writer
1917		The Wolf as Screenplay